Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

The wheat growers are not excluded. I suggest you wait until you see the individuals that are appointed and take your considered view then as to whether you believe they are appropriate or not. We have a very sound group of three individuals who make the assessments against the criteria and give them to the minister. I think that is as robust a process as I have seen anywhere in any appointment process in terms of an authority. If you wanted X nominee on, you could have prepared an amendment. We do not have an amendment before the chair. Or you could have convinced the Liberal Party to put that. As I understand it, this has not been an issue of contention and has not been raised so far. I am not surprised because we consider the selection process analysis is robust.